because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
personal; individual; private
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
working earnestly; sincerity; diligence; effort; pains
to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud
back-facing; backwards; backward-looking; retrogressive; reactionary
negative (e.g. thinking); negative; negative (electrical polarity)
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
good deed; good conduct; benevolence
minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)
lightly (floating); buoyantly; puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.); tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle)
lowering; sinking; depreciation; price fall; punch line (of a rakugo story); (arch.) sword strap
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
to be sore; to be inflamed; to be bleary; to be dissipated; to be dissolute; to indulge in
chicken; coward; scaredy-cat; chicken
alternately; by turns; one after the other
(somebody else's) parents; both parents
unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation
to be hurtful; to resonate emotionally (with one)
showing one's face in public; facing another person
sometimes; occasionally; at times; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)
self-consciousness; self-awareness
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
present continuous tense; present progressive form
evening glow; red sunset; afterglow (of sunset)
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
since when; from when; how long
repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth); gasping; flapping (e.g. shoe sole); gaping open and shut; heartily (eating); devouring
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
it's been a long time; long time no see
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive
to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight); to hold one's head high
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone